I’ve been waiting for years and years— well, since I was 10 years old and my class at St. Aidan’s School in Boston memorized this poem and set it to music. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is one of Frost’s most beautiful verses, and also a great example of how deceptively simple his poetry could be.
There is a crack in everything....
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen, Anthem